It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire.With air conditioning their windows were shut,they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.- Garrison Keillor

A minister has to be able to read a clock.At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roastand get the peas out of the freezer.- Garrison Keillor

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed,one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.- Garrison Keillor

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but alousy newspaper is a joy forever.- Garrison Keillor

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.- Garrison Keillor

I think the most un-American thing you can say is,'You can't say that.'- Garrison Keillor

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong,all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.- Garrison Keillor

The highlight of my childhood was making my brotherlaugh so hard that food came out of his nose.- Garrison Keillor

I want to resume the life of a shy person.- Garrison Keillor

The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that,everyone chortles.- Garrison Keillor

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.They seem not to notice us, hovering,averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks,but what we do for them is never wasted.- Garrison Keillor

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.- Garrison Keillor

We have nearly complete misunderstanding betweenpeople of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.It's when you are trying to convince another person to thinkthe same way that you do that there isfriction and trouble between people.But when you feel that the other person isdumber than dirt, too dumb for words -why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.There's no bond between people that's quite so strong aswhen people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.- Garrison Keillor

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought youwanted but getting what you have,which once you have got it you may be smart enoughto see is what you would have wanted had you known.- Garrison Keillor

I am not afraid of stormsfor I am learning how to sail my ship.- Louisa May Alcott

A good traveler has no fixed plans,and is not intent on arriving.- Lao Tzu

The mind is not a vessel to be filledbut a fire to be kindled.- Plutarch

Love one another but make not a bond of love.Let it rather be a moving seabetween the shores of your souls.- Khalil Gibran

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.- Marianne Williamson

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.- Rabindranath Tagore

The beauty does not live out there;the beauty's in my eyes.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.- Lao Tzu

The essence of life is not inthe great victories and grand failures,but in the simple joys.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;Not to know yet to think that one knowswill lead to difficulty.- Lao Tzu

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.- Rabindranath Tagore

The world is perfect. It's a mess.It has always been a mess.We are not going to change it.Our job is to straighten out our own lives.- Joseph Campbell

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."- Hans Christian Andersen

Every child comes with the messagethat God is not yet discouraged of man.- Rabindranath Tagore

You will not be punished for your anger,you will be punished by your anger.- The Buddha

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,under whose shade you do not expect to sit.- Nelson Henderson

Everything has beauty,but not everyone sees it.- Confucius

Lord, grant that I might not so muchseek to be loved as to love.- St. Francis of Assisi

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Treat those who are good with goodness,and also treat those who are not good with goodness.Thus goodness is attained.Be honest to those who are honest,and be also honest to those who are not honest.Thus honesty is attained.- Lao Tzu

Everything is a miracle,not just the beautiful and lovely things.- Anonymous

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.- Erich Segal

Do not follow where the path may lead.Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselvesthat all of life is not black and white.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not whether you get knocked down;it's whether you get back up.- Vince Lombardi

A ship in harbor is safe -but that is not what ships are for.- John A. Shedd

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -not from the mind.- Sheri Rosenthal

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.- Lao Tzu

The worst sin toward our fellow creaturesis not to hate them,but to be indifferent to them:that's the essence of inhumanity.- George Bernard Shaw

The full measure of a man isnot to be found in the man himself,but in the colors and textures thatcome alive in others because of him.- Albert Schweitzer

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.- Henry David Thoreau

The wise man in the storm prays God,not for safety from danger,but for deliverance from fear.It is the storm within which endangers him,not the storm without.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagine all the people living life in peace.You may say I'm a dreamer,but I'm not the only one.I hope someday you'll join us,and the world will be as one.- John Lennon

Treat the earth well.It was not given to you by your parents,it was loaned to you by your children.We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,we borrow it from our Children.- Native American traditional

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.Demanding that life meet our expectationsis a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.Life is a game with no rules.Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.Our only path to happiness lies in being opento receiving whatever life throws at us -with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.- Louisa May Alcott

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.- James Allen

We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)

Love is granting another the space to bethe way they are and the way they are not.- Werner Erhard

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,and the life of the candle will not be shortened.Happiness never decreases by being shared.- The Buddha

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,of just going along,listening to all the things you can't hear,and not bothering.- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Life is not supposed to be fair.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.It sings because it has a song.- Chinese Proverb